Well thought out and sensible position overall

I don't believe that it's a VP of Engineering's place to make promises about what will be in the product, but at least they're demonstrating that they understand the problems of integrating this new class of tools and are sympathetic to what I expect are the ideals of the community. The audience of this press release are not necessarily the people who need convincing to influence the outcome. If e.g. Anthropic or OpenAI want to shovel money into Canonical to promote their brand, it's a business decision and a problem for engineering to solve.